Analysis of gender dynamics is providing some of the most exciting and innovative research in the field of contemporary Romantic studies. This collection reflects that interest and examines in particular the points at which women Romantic writers anticipate, resist and intersect with the literary productions of their male contemporaries. International scholars provide contributions which range from an examination of Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' to the crossings of gender and class to be found in the English dialect writing of Ann Wheeler of Westmoreland.

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Gendering the canons of Romanticism - past and present; re/writing home - women Romantic writers and the politics of location; dialect, gender and the politics of the local - the writing of Ann Wheeler; the father's seduction in Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"; reading "Tintern Abbey" - towards a politics of cultural production; the pen and sword - Felia Hemans's records of man; Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the New Woman